March of the third year of Tianqi.
Cabinet ministers Fang Congzhe, Han Xu, Xiong Tingbi, six ministers Sun Ruyou, Bi Ziyan, and Xichang Governor Wang Yingjiao formally jointly submitted the letter, advising the imperial court to immediately clear the land and acres of land throughout the country and strictly investigate violations of the slave system.
Zhu Youxiao laughed after receiving this memorial.
Because he had to admit that he, the emperor, promoted new spinning machines and looms and used them to unite a group of powerful gentry to make profits. With the substantial increase in productivity, these powerful gentry he united really began to form a group. New power groups.
And this power group has begun to show its fangs and actively demand reforms in the government to maximize its own interests.
"A large number of lands and people are concentrated in the hands of vassal kings, nobles, officials and gentry. If we want to clear the land all over the world and strictly investigate the violations of slave ownership, we will definitely offend these people. Tell Fang Congzhe and them to boldly go ahead. Go ahead and do it! Everything that was announced in the court meeting will be approved!"
Zhu Youxiao directly stated his position. As the big boss behind these people, he was very willing to see his loyal ministers continue to attack the vassal kings, nobles, and officials who were also in the rentier class.
"In addition, the order was passed to transfer the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Cavalry Battalion of the Guards Town, Huang Degong's Department, back to Beijing, and take the original members of the Xichang Team, Mangui Department, Zhao Led Education Department, and Qi Jin Department, to Liaodong, under the control of Yuan Keli and Sun Chuanting , You Shigong and He Shixian were transferred back to the pass to form the West Factory. The West Factory temporarily retained Qin Minping's troops, and Qin Liangyu rushed to the capital with 6,000 white pole soldiers to listen to them!"
Since Zhu Youxiao decided to support his loyal ministers to take action against the vassal kings, nobles, and officials, he naturally wanted to mobilize the most capable and reliable troops to guard various strategic locations around him.
Naturally, the one he trusted the most, Konweizhen, would be transferred to Beijing and stay with him to prevent any unexpected events.
There are now nearly 10,000 troops in Jinwei Town.
The First Infantry Battalion and the cavalry of Huang Degong's Department have already shown extraordinary combat effectiveness in Liaodong, which is enough to show that Jinwei Town is indeed Zhu Youxiao's trump card created by combining the wisdom of all the famous Ming generals in the world and his own advantages as a time traveler. army.
Therefore, as long as Nearly Wan Zhen stays with him, Zhu Youxiao can be sure that his and the capital's safety is guaranteed.
As for Liaodong, an important place where the Dongqi were still enemies, Zhu Youxiao believed that after Zhao led Jiao, Man Gui, and Qi Jin to Liaodong, they could completely make up for the first battalion of the Guards Town Infantry and Youshi. In view of the emptiness in Liaodong after the transfer of Gong and He Shixian's troops, and the abilities of Yuan Keli and Sun Chuanting, Zhu Youxiao believed that this was more than enough to ensure that there would be no trouble in Liaodong, and he might be able to create a team that was not inferior to the guards. The town's record came.
The reason why Zhu Youxiao asked You Shigong and He Shixian to go to Xichang was naturally to reward these two troops for their heroic performance in the campaign against the Eastern captives. It also served as a message to other military towns in Liaodong not to think about raising bandits for their own sake. As long as you are loyal to the court, the benefits will be greater than less. If you don't be smart, you will be misled by your cleverness.
Although Zhu Youxiao felt that this step was already foolproof, even if someone rebelled in the capital, he would still be safe.
However, Zhu Youxiao still ordered Qin Liangyu to lead 6,000 white-armed soldiers to Beijing as a mobile force, just in case.
At this point, Zhu Youxiao was completely relieved.
"My slave obeys the order!"
Liu Ruoyu replied, and immediately approved the memorial by Fang Congzhe and others.
Therefore, next, the cabinet began to issue a decree requiring the governors of each province to immediately clear out the land and acres, and strictly investigate the phenomenon of excessive slave ownership. It also required the governors of each province to compile and report the unclaimed land and excess slaves to the Ministry of Household Affairs. manage.
The purpose of this was naturally to control these ownerless fields in the hands of the court as a production site for raw materials, and to reorganize redundant slaves into households and turn them into new workers.
Baoding Prefecture.
"Only those traitorous officials and thieves who are afraid of the world's chaos can think of such a thing as clearing their father-in-law's land and offending the powerful gentry! I am not willing to do it!"
Snapped!
Huang Zunyi slapped the Di newspaper on the table with a heavy slap and said to Guang Shiheng, the official of Baoding Prefecture.
Guang Shiheng sighed because of this and said: "But this is the imperial decree, how can we violate it?"
Huang Zunyi took off his black gauze hat and said, "I'm not going to be an official anymore!"
With that said, Huang Zunyi hung up his crown and left.
Very chic.
Nor did he ask for resignation from the court.
Just like many civil servants in the Wanli Dynasty who didn't bother to resign because they were unhappy with their work, they just hung up their titles and left.
Huang Zunyi did not think there was anything wrong with this, because this was an era where the rules and laws of the king were only valid for the common people, and the scholar-bureaucrats and dignitaries did not have the habit and awareness to abide by the rules of the king.
Huang Zunyi even felt that this was a sign of his integrity and lack of fame and fortune, and he would be praised by future generations in the future.
Guang Shiheng felt a little ashamed because he thought he was still greedy for power and did not dare to be as cool as Huang Zunyi.
It didn't take long for Huang Zunyi to leave Baoding Mansion and come to Dongguang County.
But it was already dark at that time, so Huang Zunyi, his family, staff, servants, etc. could only stay here for one night near a post station called Qingheyi.
The Ming Dynasty has been in peace for more than two hundred years, and various post stations are located at the transportation hub of various places. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, many of the various post stations are economically developed towns.
Qinghe Station is no exception. In addition to the inns run by the government, there are also brothels and restaurants run by private individuals along the way, which is quite prosperous.
Under normal circumstances, private brothels and restaurants are more luxurious and luxurious than inns, and more importantly, they have various special services.
Naturally, a scholar-bureaucrat like Huang Zunyi would not live in a post station and live in a restaurant called "Mizui Building".
But he still asked for money from the post station as usual, because the post station had the obligation to entertain officials, and if the official did not stay at the post station, the post station had to give the official money for the entertainment, which was considered to pay for the official to live elsewhere.
However, there is no need for Huang Zunyi to come forward for this kind of thing, his servants will only do these things for him.
This phenomenon of officials and gentry starting to disturb the inn and asking for money as soon as they arrive near the inn is not unique to Huang Zunyi.
In this era, this is a common phenomenon in society.
Historically, Xu Xiake mentioned in his travel notes how he used the tickets given by his friends who were officials to arrest civilians working for him at a post station. It can be seen that the scholar-bureaucrats of this era did not think there was anything wrong with this. , so I wrote it in my travel diary.
During the Qing Dynasty, one of the crimes for which Cao Xueqin's father's house was later ransacked was for disturbing the inn.
Therefore, Huang Zunyi didn't think anything was wrong.
"One thousand taels? Sir, please do me a favor, the inn can't give you that much!"
"You still need a hundred peasants to carry the boxes? This station really can't do it. Now almost all the easy-to-catch villagers around here have gone to work in Tianjin in the north. The rest are tenants of wealthy families. With my clan members, I don’t dare to arrest you at the inn!”
At this time, after Huang Zunyi's servant Lan Zhiwang asked the post station to give him one thousand taels of silver and capture another hundred civilian husbands, Ran Chonggui, the post manager of the post station, couldn't help but cry out in pain.
"Don't grind your teeth for me! You can't even give me a thousand taels. Don't think that I don't know that you are the Yi Cheng here. I'm afraid you open more than half of the shops around here. Do you think that my master is just a rhetorician?" Do you think the prefect is easy to bully when he returns home? Don’t forget, my master is still the prefect of Baoding Prefecture. If he wants you to die, he can let you die!"
Lan Zhiwang kicked Ran Chonggui directly and cursed.
"what happened?"
Huang Zunyi was preparing to go out for fun with Gao Shijun, a local official and gentry, so he saw this scene after leaving the restaurant and asked.
Lan Zhiwang replied: "Sir, this postman is dishonest. I asked him for food silver, but he refused to give it to me! He even refused to call the postman!"
"Then I'll fight to death! Do you still want to be a postmaster?"
Huang Zunyi said seriously.
"I really can't give you so much. I have only been a postmaster for a short time. How can I have so much money? Please be merciful to me!"
Yi Chengran Chonggui began to cry.
Huang Zunyi was naturally too lazy to listen, and went straight into a brothel with pink fragrance together with Gao Shijun.
Not long after, Ran Chonggui was pushed to the ground by a servant of the Huang family and beaten violently, screaming in agony.
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